Experienced

The average tenure of an account director at Manifest is five years and several have been here more than ten.

Knowledgeable

A pre-requisite for a job at Manifest is a background in either an agency or client side marketing department.

persuasive

The power of persuasion. The dark art of making another see things your way through the use of language.

Passionate

You are passionate about your agency; we get it and you can be sure we will be as passionate as you are.

Our focus

We specialise in helping companies within the creative and marketing services industry win more new clients by arranging new business meetings for them with the decision makers for their service within the companies they want to work with.

Strategy

The first stage is to identify and define the agency proposition; what is it that you actually do? Why do your clients love working with you? And crucially, why should a prospective new client give up an hour of their precious time to meet you.

Planning

Once the proposition has been agreed the next stage in the process is the planning of the campaign. Who do you want to meet with? What content do you have and how can we integrate with your inbound strategy so we work seamlessly.

Campaigning

Whitelabeled as a member of your team, we will utilise channel agnostic, disruptive and engaging one-to-one communication to get your message noticed by your prospective new clients and arrange for you to meet them when appropriate.

Reporting

Your contact at Manifest will keep you fully informed of progress at all times. You will be provided with a monthly report of all contacts that have been made with a précis of the exchanges, meetings arranged and attended plus stats.

Brands our clients have recently won through our campaigning.

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Testimonials

Things some of our lovely clients have said about or to us

Big compliment from the client for our account director today, they said she was great and that they don’t normally see creative companies (they get inundated with calls apparently).

They told me in the meeting she was very nice and professional and she’d done awfully well to get us in front of them. Meeting went well and looks positive. Well done!

MD of a Full Service Agency

Manifest has been working with us for over a year, providing strategic consultancy and lead generation services. They’ve become an invaluable partner for us and an extension of our team here.

Their appointment has given our new business effort wings, and we enjoy working with their highly professional and results-oriented team. If you’re not already working with them, and aren’t competitive to us, you should be speaking to them.

Partner of Advertising Agency

Manifest is a team of experienced and insightful, extremely professional new business strategists. If you need a lift they have a ready finger on the button.

They are terrific and I am happy to recommend them.

Chairperson of PR Agency

People in the new business contact world always promise a lot. Manifest delivers. What’s more they provide great advice and counsel alongside the meetings and the leads. They are a great team and a great approach and I’d certainly hire Manifest again.

Managing Director and Chair of EMEA Technology Practice at leading PR Agency

I have worked with Manifest for almost 10 years now and used them at three different agencies and consider them an important part of my business operations. I have used different agencies in this space in the past and none has delivered the consistency of results and impact that I’ve come to expect of Manifest.

Their systems, their data and detail, but most importantly their people are of a high standard and I would recommend them with genuine enthusiasm and conviction.

MD of PR Agency

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